A 5,000-pound block of Ivory soap  one of the biggest ever made  produced a giant sculpture of Uncle Sam that's now sitting in Procter & Gamble Co.'s downtown lobby.

Ivory is one of P&G's flagship products, and the soap was made at the company's Ivorydale plant. It had been at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington since October, part of a display celebrating Ivory's history.

The block of soap  6 feet tall, 4 feet long and 4 feet wide  was carved by Gary Sussman of Hoosick Falls, N.Y. At 5,000 pounds, the block is equivalent to 22,000 bars of Ivory soap, P&G said.